Garmin Descent Mk2i Wrist Dive Computer

Physical & Performance

•GPS: Yes

•Display resolution: 280 x 280 pixels

•Weight: silicone band: 99.6 g / titanium band: 160.3 g

•Display type: sunlight-visible, transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP)

•Battery life

-Smartwatch: Up to 16 days

-Battery Saver Watch Mode: Up to 50 days

-GPS: Up to 48 hours

-GPS + Music: Up to 15 hours

-Max Battery GPS Mode: Up to 96 hours

-Dive mode: Up to 80 hours

-Expedition GPS Activity: up to 35 days

•Display size: 1.4” (35.56 mm) diameter

Maps & Navigation

•Memory/History: 32 GB

Features

•Battery Saver - customizable low power watch: Yes

•Cardio workouts: Yes

•Time/date: Yes

•% HRR: Yes

•Gas time remaining: Yes

•Water rating Dive: (100 meters)

•Around Me mode: Yes

•Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR): Yes

•Custom dive data screens: Yes

•Automatically saves dive entry and exit locations: Yes

•Safety Stop: Yes (customizable off/3min/5min)

•Training Effect (anaerobic): Yes

•TruSwing™ compatible: Yes

•Missed Deco Lockout: Yes (can be disabled prior to dive with user acknowledgement)

•Customizable data pages: Yes

•HR Broadcast (broadcasts HR data over ANT+™ to paired devices): Yes

•Hazards and course targets: Yes

•Drill logging (pool swim only): Yes

•Garmin AutoShot™: Yes

•TracBack®: Yes

•Auto scroll: Yes

•Controls smartphone music: Yes

•Heat and altitude acclimation: Yes

•Music Storage: up to 2,000 songs

•Downloadable training plans: Yes

•PO2: Up to 2.0 with customizable deco PO2 setting

•HR zones: Yes

•Decompression model: Bühlmann ZHL-16c with gradient factors

•Point-to-point navigation: Yes

•Finish time: Yes

•Stat tracking (strokes, putts per round, greens and fairways hit): Yes

•Race an activity: Yes

•Step counter: Yes

•Run workouts: Yes

•Nitrox support: Yes

•Live Event Sharing: Yes

•Manual lap: Yes

•Distance traveled: Yes

•Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation: Yes (spot-check, and optional all-day acclimation and in sleep)

•Pairs with Garmin Connect™ Mobile: Yes

•No fly time: Yes (with 24hr countdown)

•Training Status (lets you see if you’re training effectively by tracking your training history and fitness level trend.): Yes

•Surface diver status widget: Yes (surface interval, N2/HE loading, CNS, OTU and tissue compartment status)

•Future elevation plot: Yes

•Gauge mode: Yes

•Auto start/end dive: Yes

•Measures shot distance (calculates exact yardage for shots from anywhere on course): Automatic

•Courses: Yes

•Gas consumption rate: Yes

•Fitness Age: Yes (in app)

•Galileo: Yes

•Manual multisport activities: Yes

•Distance to destination: Yes

•Smartphone compatibility: iPhone®, Android™

•% HR max: Yes

•Strength workouts: Yes

•Lens Material: sapphire crystal

•Automatic club tracking compatible (requires accessory): Yes

•Customizable conservatism: Yes (low/medium/high or custom using gradient factors)

•Calendar: Yes

•Cycle Map (routable cycling-specific street map): Yes

•Find My Phone: Yes

•Wrist-based Heart Rate (constant, every second): Yes

•Text response/reject phone call with text (Android™ only): Yes

•Compatible with Varia™ lights: Yes

•Daily Resting Heart Rate: Yes

•Training Effect: Yes

•Barometric trend indicator with Storm Alert: Yes

•Customizable activity profiles: Yes

•HR calories: Yes

•Preloaded ski resort maps: Yes

•Performance condition (after running 6–20 minutes, compares your real-time condition to your average fitness level): Yes

•Hunt/fish calendar: Yes (via Connect IQ™)

•Alarm clock: Yes

•LiveTrack: Yes

•Dual grid coordinates: Yes

•Assistance: Yes

•Available cycling profiles: Biking, Indoor Biking, Mountain Biking, Triathlon

•Strap material: silicone or titanium

•Auto Lap®: Yes

•Auto Pause®: Yes

•Dive ascent/descent rate indicator: Yes

•PlaysLike distance: Yes

•Compatible with Varia Vision™ (head-mounted display): Yes

•Activity history on watch: Yes

•Advanced workouts: Yes

•Open-water swim metrics (distance, pace, stroke count/rate, stroke distance, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): Yes

•Body Battery™ Energy Monitor: Yes

•Multi-gas mode: Yes

•Training Load (your total training load for the last 7 days calculated from estimated EPOC): Yes

•Storm alert: Yes

•Power meter compatible: Yes

•Trendline™ Popularity Routing: Yes (available as a wearable map theme)

•Respiration rate (during exercise): Yes

•Ground contact time and balance (shows how much time, in the running motion, your foot is on the ground rather than in flight and lets you check your running symmetry): Yes (with compatible accessory)

•XERO™ Locations: Yes

•Yardage to F/M/B (distance to front, middle and back of green): Yes

•Case material: fiber-reinforced polymer with metal rear cover

•Gyroscope: Yes

•Bezel Material: stainless steel

•Abnormal Heart Rate Alerts: Yes (high and low)

•Auto max HR: Yes

•Training load focus: Yes

•Compass: Yes

•FTP (Functional Threshold Power): Yes (with compatible accessory)

•Thermometer: Yes

•Course guidance: Yes

•Depth sensor: Yes

•Barometric altimeter: Yes

•Area calculation: Yes (via Connect IQ™)

•GPS Time Sync: Yes

•Countdown start (pool swim only): Yes

•Bike lap and lap maximum power (with power sensor): Yes

•Automatic rep counting: Yes

•Physical size: 52 x 52 x 17.8 mm

•APNEA hunt mode: Yes

•Full vector map: Yes

•VIRB® Remote: Yes

•Round timer/odometer: Yes

•Stroke type detection (freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) (pool swim only): Yes

•Alerts & alarms: Audible and vibration alarms for ascent rate, PO2, CNS/OTU, NDL, deco, gas switching. Customizable (up to 40) audible and/or vibration per dive mode, based on depth or time

•Pulse Ox Blood Oxygen Saturation Monitor: Yes (with Acclimation)

•Respiration rate (24x7): Yes

•GLONASS: Yes

•Records heart rate while swimming: Yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™)

•Projected waypoint: Yes

•ClimbPro™ Ascent Planner: Yes

•Sunrise/sunset times: Yes

•Find My Watch: Yes

•PacePro™ Pacing Strategies: Yes

•Speed and cadence sensor support: Yes (ANT+® and Bluetooth® Smart sensors)

•Preloaded topographical maps: Yes

•Vertical oscillation and ratio (the degree of 'bounce' in your running motion and the cost-benefit ratio with stride length): Yes (with compatible accessory)

•Cadence (provides real-time number of steps per minute): Yes

•GPS speed and distance: Yes

•Available gym activity profiles: Strength, Cardio and Elliptical Training, Stair Stepping, Floor Climbing, Indoor Rowing, Pilates and Yoga

•All-day Stress Tracking: Yes

•Incident Detection during select activities: Yes

•Foot pod capable: Yes

•Move IQ™: Yes

•Sun and moon information: Yes (via Connect IQ™)

•Gas mixes: Air, Nitrox and Trimix, up to 100% O2; 1 bottom gas and up to 11 deco and/or backup gasses

•Heart rate from external HRM (real-time during rests, interval and session stats during rests, and automatic heart rate download post-swim): Yes (with HRM-Tri™ and HRM-Swim™)

•Pool swim workouts: Yes

•Back to start: Yes

•Automatic daylight saving time: Yes

•Hydration: Yes (in Garmin Connect™)

•Virtual Partner: Yes

•Smart notifications: Yes

•Deep Stops: Yes (using custom gradient factors)

•Available swim profiles: Pool Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Swimming/Running

•Dive activity maximum operating depth: 100 meters

•Green View with manual pin position: Yes

•Underwater wrist-based heart rate: Yes

•Round-trip course creator (running/cycling): Yes

•Yoga workouts: Yes

•Weather: Yes

•Pool swim metrics (lengths, distance, pace, stroke count, swim efficiency (SWOLF), calories): Yes

•Tides: Yes

•Interval training: Yes

•Single-gas mode: Yes

•Strava Live Segments: Yes

•Race predictor: Yes

•Trimix support: Yes

•Connectivity: Bluetooth® Smart, ANT+®, Wi-Fi®

•Recovery time: Yes

•Preloaded with 41,000 courses worldwide: Yes

•Sync dive log to Garmin Dive™ Mobile app: Yes

•Color display: Yes

•Garmin Pay™: Yes

•On-screen workout animations: Yes

•Compatible with BaseCamp™: Yes

•Built-in barometer and tide tables: Yes

•Auto CourseView updates: Yes

•Available outdoor recreation profiles: Hiking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Skiing, Snowboarding, XC Skiing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, Rowing, Kayaking, Jumpmaster, Tactical

•Intensity minutes: Yes

•Auto goal (learns your activity level and assigns a daily step goal): Yes

•Auto multisport activities: Yes

•Stride length (real time): Yes (with compatible accessory)

•Stopwatch: Yes

•Sleep: Yes

•Custom end-dive timeout: Yes (20s to 10 m)

•Running dynamics: Yes (with compatible accessory)

•HRV stress test (measures your heart rate variability while standing still, for 3 minutes, to provide you with an estimated stress level; the scale of this is 1 to 100; low scores indicate lower stress levels): Yes (with compatible accessory)

•Basic rest timer (up from 0) (pool swim only): Yes

•Downloadable cartography support: Yes

•Relaxation reminders: Yes

•VO2 max: Yes

•Expedition GPS Activity: Yes

•Lactate threshold (through analysis of your pace and heart rate, estimates the point where your muscles start to rapidly fatigue): Yes (with compatible accessory)

•GPS coordinates: Yes

•Physio TrueUp: Yes

•Compatible with Vector™ (power meter): Yes

•Air integration: Yes (via Subwave™)

•Garmin Live Segments: Yes

•HR alerts: Yes

•Hot keys: Yes

•Power Modes - customizable in-activity battery settings: Yes

•Accelerometer: Yes

•Dive planner: Yes (basic NDL + multi-gas deco planner)

•Yardage to layups/doglegs: Yes

•Handicap scoring: Yes

•GPS-based distance, time and pace: Yes

•Calories burned: Yes

•Touch and/or button lock: Yes

•Trail run auto climb: Yes

•Residual Tissue Loading Reset: Yes (on the surface with user acknowledgement)

•Configurable lap alerts: Yes

•Audio prompts: Yes

•Timer: Yes

•TrueUp™: Yes

•Connect IQ™ (downloadable watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps): Yes

•UltraTrac mode: Yes

•Vertical speed: Yes

•Available run profiles: Running, Treadmill Running, Indoor Track Running, Trail Running

•Floors climbed: Yes

•Bread crumb trail in real time: Yes

•Elevation profile: Yes

•Digital scorecard: Yes

•Backlight: Yes (configurable time and intensity; auto-on at depth)

•Move bar (displays on device after a period of inactivity; walk for a couple of minutes to reset it): Yes

•Custom targets: Yes

•PinPointer: Yes

•Plays and controls watch music: Yes

•QuickFit™ watch band compatible: Yes (26 mm)

•Sight 'N Go: Yes

•3-axis dive compass: Yes (with adjustable heading, quick change to 90R, 90L and reciprocal). Indicates degrees and direction back to set heading

•Relaxation breathing timer: Yes

•Tides: Yes

•Garmin Elevate™ wrist heart rate monitor: Yes

•APNEA mode: Yes

•Pilates workouts: Yes

•Group LiveTrack: Yes

•Alerts (triggers alarm when you reach goals including time, distance, heart rate or calories): Yes

•Automatic altitude adjustment: Yes

•Menstrual Cycle: Yes (in Garmin Connect™)

•Compatible with Varia™ radar (rear-facing radar): Yes

•Race an Activity: Yes

•Primary benefit (Training Effect labels): Yes

•Custom alerts: Yes

•Total ascent/descent: Yes

•Descent Mk2i dive computer

•Black extra-long adjustment strap

•Charging/data cable

•Documentation